I'll make this super quick, I'm looking at G2A at their 35.64 deal for Witcher 3 GOG key, but with that story about GMG and some other things that are confusing me right now, I just want to know if I pre-purchase the key from G2A is that a legitimate key purchased from CDPR and it will for sure, 100% work with their GOG client? I really don't want to spend the money and fight with G2A to get it back if it doesn't work. I just don't have the extra 20 dollars to spend on the 53 price tag.

You never know with gray sites like G2A or kinguin. Anyone can sell keys in G2A, and there were cases when people got their keys revoked, because they were bought with stolen credit cards or something of the kind. And then there is the people who always buys things there, and never had a problem.

What is this site? It's mentioned in several thread and I had never heard of it before. What a big fuss about it, "great" deals? Why not buying directly from GOG, Steam, Origin and so on?

Well, you live in Rusia, right? You can buy games at heavily disccounted prices. But there are people from different regions who don't have enough money for a game, so they visit these sites to buy their games for less money. Basically, sites like G2A allow people to resell keys. What does it means? That, for example, I can buy keys in certain stores for less money (making sure that they are not region locked) and resell them here to earn a profit. Or I can also use stolen credit cards to buy a lot of games, resell them here, and earn a profit too (and then the game gets revoked from the final user's account). Long story short, you can buy games in sites like these at cheaper prices, but running certain risks.

Thanks a lot for clarification! Yes, in Russia you can get a huge discount comparing to other countries. I think if not these discounts for a lot of people (including myself) the main source of games would have been TPB.

Regarding keys, I thought you wouldn't be able to resell a key, would you? E.g., for Steam you can activate it once and then it's not active anymore. How can another person use it? Or were you talking about some other keys, not Steam?

I was talking about steam keys, yes. And people who sell keys in G2A don't activate their own product... They just buy it for less money and try to sell it there. Think of it as when you import something, and then sell it to a wider public, at a higher price.

Ah, ok. I just didn't get they'd never activated their keys. Now it makes sense. Thanks again!

People by stuff in sales, or in bulk from closing stores etc and then put them up on sites like G2A for profit.

However it's worth noting that you run a very real risk of losing both the game and money if you buy from them. Far Cry 4, Sniper Elite 3, and a few others all had huge swathes of keys cancelled from those sites. They're bought with stolen credit cards and then flogged on.

It's not worth it imo, not just to save the price of a coffee. Any higher savings and then i get all the more worried over the key. Since the only way they can sell it THAT cheap is to have gotten it from a dodgy source

Your choice. Your biggest problem is that in trying to save $20, you may end up losing it all. And no one can tell you if it is legit until the game is released and you try to install it.

Caveat Emptor

What stops people to make a purchase via VPN in Russian for much lesser price from say a fake account and then to gift to themselves? Given it's possible to gift the title. For The Witcher 3 it's currently blocked.

Many games are starting to implement region locking, which stop the user from activating games unless they are from a certain region.

Some people do use proxies, but it runs the risk of getting you banned by Steam (who will most likely notice if your ip continually jumps back and forth between countries)

This is all true, but for Steam, maybe Origin. But what about GOG? Once you've gotten the installer nobody could ever revoke your right to own the game. It's yours and you don't need internet connection (for most of the games) or client (which is optional for GOG users), so nobody can block you.

Yes - GOG is DRM free but you will need to connect to the Internet to finalize the installation of the game on the 19th, so configure yourself for that. After that original installation is all done you will be free to play it off-line wherever you are.

I'm sure if people were only trying to save 20$ it wouldn't be such an issue but when Witcher 3 is 80$usd(98$au) on steam without the 35$(43$au) for the season pass. The savings can be worth the risk.

What, AUD$98?? Isn't it "a bit" overpriced? I thought it was around USD$50-60 mostly everywhere (except for Russia with its low prices for some reason).